put across

Questions about put across

What does put across mean?

put across means "transmit information".

What is another word for put across?

Close synonyms include communicate, pass on, pass, pass along. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is put across a common word?

put across is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.